This series consists of material relating to Sol Littman's investigative research on convicted war criminal Albert Helmut Rauca and the resulting book "War Criminal on Trial: The Rauca Case," published in 1983, with an updated version published in 2015.
The series includes, but is not limited to: correspondence, briefs, submissions and research notes on the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada in 1985, generally referred to as the Deschênes Commission; notes from interviews with concentration camp survivors; draft outlines and manuscripts of the "War Criminal on Trial: The Rauca Case;" articles and book excerpts regarding the history of the Holocaust and war criminals in Canada, with a focus on Albert Helmut Rauca; Littman's notes based on a variety of sources relating to the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division and the presence of war criminals and collaborators in Canada, such as articles, books and tv shows; draft scripts for CBC's The Journal episode on the Helmut Rauca case; reports written by Sol Littman as representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center relating to war criminals; Supreme Court of Ontario extradition proceedings.
The photographs in this series include: Elchanan Elkes, a Jewish community leader in the Kovno Ghetto; Helmut Rauca, his Toronto home and the Huntsville Motor Court motel which he owned; the Kovno Ghetto in Kaunas; and Lithuania during the German occupation. Also included are videocassettes and film reels containing interviews conducted by Sol Littman with individuals who either knew Rauca or were involved in the extradition case. These include:
¿ Jurgen Kuehnen, owner of Steinborn's Delicatessen in Huntsville, Ontario.
¿ Anne Mill, a neighbour of Rauca's for several years in Huntsville, Ontario.
¿ Leon Kupferberg, Holocaust survivor from Kaunas, Lithuania
¿ Yaakov Rabinovitch, a journalist and Holocaust survivor from Kaunas, Lithuania
¿ Allan Ryan, Head of Special Investigations Branch of the United States Department of Justice
¿ Robert Wolfe, archivist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
¿ Bert Raphael, former legal counsel to the Canadian Jewish Congress
¿ Irwin Cotler, former legal counsel to the Canadian Jewish Congress
¿ William Dresson, public prosecutor at the Central Office of the Regional Administration of Justice for the Clarification of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg, West Germany
¿ Emil Fackenheim, philosopher and theologian
¿ Joseph Fuerst, Holocaust survivor.
